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42nd Street Grand Central Depot, New York City - 1890 – Historic Photo Reproduction

42nd Street Grand Central Depot, New York City - 1890, c1939. — historic photograph
42nd Street Grand Central Depot, New York City - 1890, c1939.. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures 42nd Street Grand Central Depot, New York City - 1890 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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42nd Street Grand Central Depot, New York City - 1890

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Streetcar tracks and the depot's broad facade at 42nd Street and Park Avenue define this view of Grand Central Depot, the terminal the New York Central opened in 1871. The image is an Albertype reproduction of a photograph by Adolph Wittemann, whose firm also held the copyright, and it came to the collection through the Leonard Hassam Bogart Collection. The caption card dates the scene to 1890, though the record notes those details are unverified, and the print itself is a later reproduction, dated around 1939. Its street-railway and station tracings make it useful for studying how city transit met the railroad terminal.

Created / publishedc1939.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsAlbertype reprod. of photo by Adolph Wittemann, copyrighted by H.L. Wittemann - from the Leonard Hassam Bogart Collection. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Street-railroads--1890; Railroads--Stations--NY; NY--NYC--Bldgs.--Grand...; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,105 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-170913

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